SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
2PM
ARMORY LIVE THEATER
Featuring Carlos Basualdo, Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Deputy Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator at Madison Square Park Conservancy; and Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the ICA/Boston—moderated by Darsie Alexander, Susan and Elihu Rose Chief Curator at the Jewish Museum.
In conversation with notable curators who organized the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, this roundtable discussion will address the ways in which this global platform—positioned against changing political, social and cultural conditions—is understood and explored through the work of today’s leading artists. Organized on the occasion of the Jewish Museum’s New York: 1962-1964 exhibition, which reflects back on the famed 1964 Biennale, when Robert Rauschenberg won the Golden Lion, the roundtable will address the institution of the pavilion itself, how it has been perceived and challenged over time, and the impact of its structure and visibility on artists’ trajectories. The talk will address questions such as: What curatorial and artistic decisions informed the process of preparing for representation at the United States Pavilion? How has the partnership between artist and curator evolved over time? And what is the role of the pavilion today?
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
CARLOS BASUALDO
Carlos Basualdo is the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He was the lead organizer of “Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens” that represented the USA at the 2009 Venice Biennale and was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. In 2010 he organized a survey exhibition of the work of Michelangelo Pistoletto. In 2012 he organized (with Erica Battle) “Dancing Around the Bride: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Marcel Duchamp”. He was responsible for “Barbara Chase-Riboud: The Malcolm X Steles” in 2014, “Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection” in 2016, and “Bruce Nauman, Contrapposto Studies I-VII” in 2017, all of them at the PMA. In 2021 he co-curated “Bruce Nauman: Contrapposto Studies” with Caroline Bourgeois at Punta della Dogana in Venice, and “Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror,” a retrospective exhibition of the work of Jasper Johns, with Scott Rothkopf, that took place simultaneously at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. His most recent project, “River of Forms: Giuseppe Penone’s Drawings,” opens at the PMA in September 2022.He was part of the curatorial teams for Documenta11 and the 50th Venice Biennale and conceived and curated “Tropicalia: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture,” which traveled from the MCA Chicago to the Barbican Gallery in London as well as the Bronx Museum in New York and the Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro. From 2010 until 2013 he worked as Curator at Large at MAXXI Arte, in Rome, Italy.
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BROOKE KAMIN RAPAPORT
Brooke Kamin Rapaport is Deputy Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator at Madison Square Park Conservancy in New York. She joined the Conservancy in 2013. She was Commissioner and Curator of the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale with the exhibition Martin Puryear: Liberty / Libertà (2019). A major catalogue accompanied the Venice exhibition published by Gregory R. Miller. At Madison Square Park Conservancy, she is responsible for the outdoor public sculpture program of commissioned work by contemporary artists including Diana Al-Hadid, Tony Cragg, Abigail DeVille, Leonardo Drew, Teresita Fernandéz, Hugh Hayden, Cristina Iglesias, Maya Lin, Josiah McElheny, Martin Puryear, Erwin Redl, Arlene Shechet, and Krzysztof Wodiczko. She is founder of Public Art Consortium, a national initiative of museum, public art, and sculpture park curators(2017 launch). As guest curator at The Jewish Museum in New York, she organized Houdini: Art and Magic, an interdisciplinary exhibition on the life and enduring significance in visual culture and contemporary art of the magician and escape artist Harry Houdini (2010). The show traveled to venues in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Madison, Wisconsin. Yale University Press published the exhibition catalogue. Rapaport served as guest curator at The Jewish Museum for The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend, a survey exhibition that traveled to The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young (2007). A catalogue published by Yale University Press accompanied the Nevelson exhibition and was voted the Best Art and Photography Book by Amazon.com(2007). The volume also won the New York State Historical Association’s Henry Allen Moe Prize for Catalogues of Distinction in the Arts (2009).
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EVA RESPINI
Eva Respini is Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the ICA Boston. Before joining the ICA as Barbara Lee Chief Curator in 2015, Respini was Curator at the Museum of Modern Art for over a decade.
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DARSIE ALEXANDER
Darsie Alexander is the Susan and Elihu Rose Chief Curator and Senior Deputy Director at the Jewish Museum. Previously she held positions as Chief Curator at the Walker Art Center, Senior Curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Assistant Curator at the Museum of Modern Art and Executive Director of the Katonah Museum of Art. In addition to her numerous exhibitions, including International Pop (2015-2016), Martha Rosler: Irrespective (2018-2019), and Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art (2021-2022), Alexander played an instrumental role in New York: 1962-1964, on view at the Jewish Museum until January 8, 2023.
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